December 08, 2008

Bacon FAIL!

Yes, you read that right. Those two words are seldom paired here (or anywhere that I know of, for that matter) but it can happen...

British shoppers were left in the dark after the Food Standards Agency
(FSA) failed to publish a list of pork, bacon and ham products that may
be tainted with cancer-causing dioxins, even as it emerged that most of
the suspect meat exported from the Republic of Ireland in the past
three months — 4,462 tonnes — came to the UK.

The crisis
over Irish pigmeat products has spread across the world and shelves
were cleared yesterday of suspect produce in 21 countries, including
China, Russia and Japan. Imports from the Republic are suspended.

In Ireland, amid warnings that 6,000 workers could be laid off, the
incident has become a political row as a cull of 100,000 pigs was
delayed by a row over compensation. In Britain, however, people were
given no help to identify contaminated products that may be in their
fridges or freezers. Instead, the food watchdog merely reiterated its
advice that even though risks to human health were very low, consumers
should not eat pigmeat produced either in the Republic or in Northern
Ireland.

So, um, what exactly are they supposed to
eat for breakfast? I mean, it's the most important meal of the day, and
everyone knows that a balanced breakfast includes some kind of pork
product.